Monday, February 7, 2011

Thundersnow?

Some very strong (>50 dBZ) radar reflectivities are moving over Little Cottonwood Canyon this afternoon (~1630 MST). Hopefully everyone is off the mountain and off the ski lifts as there is almost certainly lightning embedded in the reflectivity core.

2 comments:

There was lightning for a while in Sandy, from about 4:00 - 4:30 pm accompanied by graupel and heavy snow. I noticed in the lightning data that it was somewhat widespread through the frontal band, more than just that one cell.

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